Sitarist Shubhendra Rao, who studied under Shankar, looks to bring his guru's music to the masses again with an American tour.

George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh was a history making benefit concert. But he is keen to credit the real mastermind behind it.

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Who was George Harrison’s musical guru, Ravi Shankar? Music and spirituality were very connected for the Beatle. Harrison thought Shankar was a “brilliant” teacher. “Ravi Shankar is probably the ...

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100... The Enduring Afterglow Of Ravi Shankar's Life In ...

When he was just 10 years old, Shankar began performing in Europe and the US with his family's Indian dance troupe. But at age 18, Shankar gave up... Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Eastern Music To Western ...

The late Ravi Shankar was a sitar player and leading figure in 20th century Indian classical music, who influenced audiences across the world. This year, his wife and daughter formed the Ravi Shankar ...

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and continents, ...